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Originally Posted by willravel
There is a reason that the word "religion" is not the same as "denomination". Most denominations are the same. All of the sermons in my father's Lutheran Church could be told in a Methodist church, Baptist church, Episcopal, Evangelical, etc. If you put the word "Pope" in now and again, they could even be preached in Catholic churches. They all read the same book, and even interpret 99.9% of the book the same. That's not diversity; it's stubbornness.
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A lot of them are probably very similar, but I don't know if you can credibly claim that they're the same. I've heard sermons from different denominations, mostly at funerals, and you're wrong if you think they're the same in every denomination.
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They don't apply to non-deistic religion, like Buddhism, but they apply to Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism.
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No, they don't. They only apply to lazy oversimplifications of the religions you mention. Generally, it is prudent only to apply logical frameworks to situations which share the same assumptions.
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Epicurus's wonderful feat of logic doesn't apply to, well, about 6% of the Earth's population. That's about 360,000,000. Of course, you have to then ask yourself whether Buddhism is a religion or philosophy, so it could be less than 1%.
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It's not that wonderful...